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Authorised form of nameBudden; Kenneth George (1915 - 2005)
Dates1915 - 2005
Date of birth23/06/1915
Date of death04/09/2005
OccupationTheoretical Physicist
Research fieldIonosphere
Radio waves
ActivityEducation:
Portsmouth Grammar School; St John's College, Cambridge
Career:
First-class honours degree in Physics from Cambridge (1936); Research student, Cavendish Laboratory (1936-1939); Joined the Telecommuniations Research Establishment (TRE) at Worth Matravers, near Swanage, Dorset, researching applications of radar (1939); Sent to USA as member of the British Air Commission (1941); Sent to South-East Asia, to the Air Command, as a civilian consultant (1945); Returned to Cambridge as a demonstrator in the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellow of St John's College (1946); Appointed Reader in Physics (1965)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/03/1966
Age at election50
PublishedWorksRadio Waves in the Ionosphere (1961)
SourceObituaries:
The Times (11 October 2005)
Biographical Memoir 2007, Volume 53, pp 109-126 by J P Dougherty
CodeNA4625
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/GA/WRS/9572Budden, Kenneth Georgend
EC/1966/03Budden, Kenneth George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/65/48Referee's report by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley, on a paper 'Further investigations of very long waves reflected from the ionosphere' by Kenneth George Budden, John Ashworth Ratcliffe and Maurice Vincent WilkesDecember 1938
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